@PieterPaul I am one of the cofounders. We have had friends using MonitorBook for a few weeks now. Our friends use it for all sorts of things. Tracking prices. Tracking headlines of websites (for instance you can set up an alert to let you know whenever a certain word shows up in an piece of text). Tracking competitors (specially their pricing). One of our friends owns a restaurant and he uses our tool to track his reviews on yelp as well as his "competitors" reviews.
The tool is flexible, so it will be interesting to see what people use it for :)
Ah this will be really useful for tracking when tickets become (re)-available.
Last Glastonbury festival I used something similar (but not as good as this) to track and notify me as soon as one of the pre-pitched camping slots changed from 'Sold out' to a quantity-dropdown based on another customer refunding their own booking.
This is really awesome, great work! Would pair jolly good with IFTTT! I actually started working on exactly the same thing once under the name PeekPeak, but never ran it through. I wish you the best of luck!
@johnaveri :) Reach out if you need any help on the Zapier front: mike@zapier.com
This is really powerful app and I can think of several great use cases. Looking forward to promoing it!
Is it just me or is this messaging really vague? It's unclear to me what kinds of things it can track. It looks super interesting, would love to know more!
@jessiewould we built the tool to be rather flexible. Even tho we ourselves only used it for about 4 use cases, It can be used to track pretty much anything. The reason why we decided to keep the tag line open ended was that we wanted to figure out what people would end up using the tool for. If we had said something like -- Easily track any price on the web, people would not be prompted to think about other use cases besides price tracking.
Nevertheless, I do see your point. We are thinking of adding a list of example use cases to our homepage so that people have a better idea of what they can use monitorbook for.
@johnaveri I totally get that -- it's nice to keep the messaging broad to account for multiple use cases. That said, I personally would love to see some examples of how people have used it, I think that could be helpful. That's just me, though. :)
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Uhhh...so it pairs the AdBlock element inspector/selector with extensions like "Page Monitor" (for Chrome), which observe website's contents and notify you upon changes.
That focus is a nice touch!
Hey guys, just want to thank the community for all the feedback. I think I've had more than 50 Olark chats which I would describe as "incredibly useful".
I also want to apologize for some issues a few users have experienced, specifically, our inability to track certain websites. Crawling the web can be tricky (especially nowadays, as websites can be incredibly dynamic/ajaxy). We are working hard to fix things as they come up :)
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Definitely has great potential, already using it to track product prices in my wish lists and important financial data on multiple websites.
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